Michael Herman is an expert when it comes to the mathematical modeling, analysis, and visualization of almost everything:

Large enterprise organizations,

Commercial, global-scale, cloud services platforms,

Organization principles and belief systems,

Human platforms,

Aircraft engines, and

Muscle cars.

Michael is the inventor of the #Graphitization Continous Transformation Model – a closed-closed loop feedback process for the ingestion, modeling, analysis, visualization, systems optimization, and life cycle management of any type of strategy, system, asset, architecture, or process.

Figure 1. #Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model

A key concept of #Graphitization is the implementation of Transformative Changes that result in positive increases in business value in the system being modeled.

#Graphitization

What is #Graphitization?

#Graphitization is a data science and enterprise architecture framework and process model for modeling, ingesting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing any domain of endeavor by using graphs – networks of connected objects and relationships with each object and relationship annotated with additional descriptive information (metadata).

The primary applications of #Graphitization are:

System optimization,

Systems life cycle management, and

Transformative Change in resulting in positive increases in business value for the system being studied.

A system is defined as any collection of strategies, system components, assets, architectures or processes.

Description

SerentityData Graph is an open source, entity-relationship modeling, serialization, and graph data visualization and analysis solution that supports the development of traditional full-stack, blockchain-based smart contract, and Neo4j graph database applications.

SerentityData features complete life-cycle integration with Neo4j for on-chain and off-chain graph data creation, migration, visualization, and analysis. Live code walk-throughs and demonstrations will enable you to begin using SerenityData and Neo4j immediately. Github: https://github.com/mwherman2000/serentitydata-compiler

4. Automated service composition of cloud services-based data systems

Call the solution “Expedia for Microsoft Azure/AWS/SFDC/…” or whatever you prefer, today’s commercial cloud services platforms are still a pain in the ass to use for creating non-trivial applications. Left, right, and center you have to hand-code a myriad of worker processes simply to reformat and pass data around.

5. Large collaborative ecosystems: employee groups, business partners, social networks

Project “Boston” is named after some potential business partners and the embryo for the idea coming from my months as a founding Groove Networks business partner (including many of my most important relationships that I still maintain today).

6. Large ecosystems of competing or competitive business organizations

Modeling of large ecosystems of competing/competitive business organizations is a straightforward #Graphitization use case.

7. Organization principles and belief systems

On the surface, the #Graphitization of principle and belief-based frameworks is pretty straightforward but this is because the basic #Graphitization serves as the substrate for many advanced data ingestion, analysis, and visualization projects.

Below are the results of the #Graphitization of two principle and belief-based frameworks:

References

11. Parallelspace ModelMate

Parallelspace ModelMate is an approach (platform and language framework) for creating domain specific languages (DSLs) for enterprise architecture. It is realized using #Graphitization and the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language.

References

12. Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT is an interesting beast. It is a reference to an application service for processing raw events from a device or dynamically generated events from a software system. IoT also defines a conceptual software and data flow architecture that can also be used for the dynamic creating and maintenance of complex systems such as large enterprise architectures.